Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: items by/about: Carl Ackerman (Russia & Wireless), Sydney Brooks (Belgium), John Crowe Ransom (poem), Edwin E Slosson, Henry Oldys, Etc Size: 4to
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
RANSOM, John Crowe. Poems About God. Henry Holt, New York, 1919.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 76 pages. Ransom's first book, a collection of poems. An about fair copy in paper covered boards with wear and chipping to the spine and corners. No dust jacket. Internally a clean copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Ransom, John Crowe. Poems About God. Henry Holt, New York, 1919.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 76 pages. First edition, first printing. His first book. Rebound in brown leather with the original spine and front cover label. Dedicated to Christopher Morley. Fine book without dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
John Crowe Ransom. Poems About God. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Brown paper covered boards, with paper labels to front and to spine. The entire backstrip is detached on one side and hanging loose, with an inch missing from the lower end. Corners a tad rubbed. Otherwise fine. Inscribed by Ransom to Mary ____ on May 27, 1919. The author's first book.
Seller: Ben Mazer Modern Firsts, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Ransom, John Crowe. Poems About God. Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, 1919.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 76 pages: 5.25 x 7.75 in.: 1: KB#011171: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. No dustjacket is included. Original brown paper boards with paper label on the front board and spine, both labels are clear and complete. Boards and pages are clean (except for small darkened rectangle at bottom of inside front board where a prior bookseller's label was), unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. This, Ransom's first book, was completed during his military service in the First World War, where he served as an artillery officer in France. Later in life, he was an educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor, and was considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.
Seller: Keener Books (Member IOBA), Menomonee Falls, WI, U.S.A.
RANSOM, John Crowe. POEMS ABOUT GOD. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1919.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: Original brown paper boards with paper label on the front board and spine, in the very scarce printed dustwrapper. Ransom's first book consisting of poems written while he was a cadet and later an officer in in World War I. The dustwrapper is complete but for slight loss along each flap fold and a vertical 2-1/2" chip along the spine edge and rear panel that is no wider than 1/4". Copies in any decent dustwrapper are virtually unknown. Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.